US agrees to limited Iraqi jurisdiction
BAGHDAD (AP) -- American troops could face trial before Iraqi courts for major crimes committed off base and when not on missions, under a draft security pact hammered out in months of tortuous negotiations, Iraqi officials familiar with the accord said Wednesday....

Iranian reformers wonder if Khatami can rise again
YAZD, Iran (AP) -- It all seemed like the stirrings of a major political challenge to Iran's firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: schoolchildren serenaded the popular reformist leader he replaced and a hometown audience chanted Wednesday: "Our next president."...

G-8 announces global summit on financial crisis
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The Group of Eight major industrial nations announced Wednesday they will hold a global summit - perhaps as early as November in New York - to forge common action to prevent another economic meltdown....

Russian lawyer suspects mercury poisoning
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian lawyer said Wednesday she suspects she and her family were poisoned by mercury found in her car, keeping her away from the start of the trial of three men accused in the slaying of journalist Anna Politkovskaya....

Crisis bodes ill for climate change talks
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The global financial crisis could hardly come at a worse time for nations seeking a new agreement on climate change that - on top of everything else - will cost tens of billions more dollars....

Deadly fighting erupts at Thai-Cambodian border
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Escalating tensions between Thailand and Cambodia over a disputed border near a historic temple erupted Wednesday in a deadly gunbattle, prompting officials to quickly declare that they would resolve the dispute through talks, not bullets....

US military: No. 2 al-Qaida in Iraq leader killed
BAGHDAD (AP) -- American soldiers killed the alleged No. 2 leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, a Moroccan who trained in Afghanistan, recruited foreign fighters and ran operations in northern Iraq where Sunni insurgents remain a potent threat, the U.S. military said Wednesday....

After victory, Canada PM keeps focus on economy
OTTAWA (AP) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a new economic plan Wednesday, a day after his Conservative Party's re-election victory fell short of a Parliament majority amid voter disgruntlement over his slow response to the global financial meltdown....

After 436 years, Austrian stables take in women
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- It's no longer a man's world in Austria's most sophisticated stables....

Pakistani intelligence agents re-arrest American
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani intelligence agents re-arrested an American detained in the country's volatile border region and were questioning the man, police said Wednesday....